Employers often fail to appreciate the experience
that older workers have to contribute to the workplace
Many employers are quite stupidly ignoring the decades of life and work skills that older employees can bring to a company.
Whilst we may hear of employees going on well past their retirement age because they like working and the job, they are sadly in the minority.
In the last century to date, people have been looking younger for longer. 60 is no longer seen as old, people who were 60 in 1939 looked 80 plus now. People who are 60 now were in the vanguard of the young once.
Evolution has taken steps and the next one is automation
There is supposedly 'ageism' legislation, but many employers are skirting this issue by looking at identifying pointers to eliminate applications from older people to interview.
They pursue the 'least cost option' of employing the youngest and least qualified, to whom they can pay the least.
They are sadly, missing out on employing people with real skills and experience who could enrich their workplaces.
Part of the 'education' system of recent years has been to 'breed in' a situation of dependency, creating a 'risk averse' and 'hands-off' generation. A generation that has been nannied to and hectored, not encouraged to take reasonable precaution and learn by practical experience.
The health and safety culture has deliberately engineered this dependency to the degree that in some large public establishments and corporations, a simple changing of a light bulb now generates the requirement for a 'professional' to attend a failed lightbulb, put out cones, erect a platform and replace said bulb, whilst charging around £100.00 to do so.
Common sense and a step ladder would have been cheaper and just as safe.
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